How Close Is The Normal Distribution?

Normal Deviate 2013-03-18

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HOW CLOSE IS THE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION? One of the first things you learn in probability is that the average has a distribution that is approximately Normal. More precisely, if are iid with mean and variance then where and means “convergence in distribution.” 1. How Close? But how close is the distribution of to the Normal? [...]

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03/18/2013, 07:20

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02/04/2013, 09:09